CHENNAI: Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on Friday announced that party's Trichy urban district wing joint secretary S Valarmathi would be its candidate for the byelection in Srirangam assembly constituency.

CHENNAI: Perumal Murugan is not the first Tamil novelist who has landed in a controversy. Janaki Raman's 'Amma Vanthal' (1966), about a mother's alleged illicit affair with a landowner, poet Salma's fiction 'Irandaam Jaamangali Kathai' (Story of the Midnight) published in 2004 and Thoppil Mohamed Meeran's boo...
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It was a night that Chennaiites had waited for almost a year. Day four of IIT Madras's annual cultural festival Saarang 2015, brought to you by the Times of India, witnessed an unprecedented turnout as scores trooped in to enjoy the evening. The Times of India Rock Show was attended by a crowd of around 8,000...
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Villupuram: The residents of Thatchur in Villupuram district were a worried lot after the National Highways Authority of India issued notice two years ago directing them to demolish a temple in their village and paid just 1.71 lakh as compensation to facilitate widening of the Salem-Chennai highway. In Januar...
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CHENNAI: The suo motu decision by Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) to revise the power tariff is legally untenable and technically flawed, a PIL in Madras high court said, seeking that the court restrain the authorities from increasing the cost of electricity in the state.

CHENNAI: Underlining its demand to state government for appointing a counsel to represent the Indian fishermen who have been awarded capital punishment by a Sri Lankan court, the Madras High Court Advocate Association(MHAA), on Monday, boycotted the court proceedings.

CHENNAI: There has been a quantum leap in prevalence of diabetes in Chennai and Delhi, and if the figures apply for other parts of the country, India would be home to the largest diabetic population on earth.

The Centre for Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia (CARRS) study conducted b...
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